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150 million people throughout the world each year. Lane explained that there is also a funding gap in increasing agricultural productivity that needs to come from the private sector. “There is no way that public sector investment alone is going to generate the productivity gains that are needed to feed 9 billion people,” he said. He added that the contributions of the private sector may also lead to more innovation and sustainability. “When I arrived in Rome in 2012, I had to say one in every eight people on the planet was food insecure,” he said. Lane explained that he believes the government’s work has been effective. “Today we say it’s one in every nine,” he added.
However, he also noted that there are many concerns for food security in the future, with climate change providing the greatest threat to food and agricultural productivity. Increasing temperatures and changes in rainfall and weather patterns mean agriculture must adapt to maintain or increase food security. Lane explained that the agriculture industry emits more greenhouse gases than cars, trains, planes combined and consumes many natural resources, making it a large contributor to climate change. Lane also explained that humanitarian concerns play an important role. “The need for humanitarian assistance in 2016 is truly unprecedented,” he said. More than 60 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes, the highest recorded number in history, according to Lane. Food inse-
curity and the instability of countries are closely linked, he added. He noted that governmental instability may lead to a lack of food security, which in turn causes more instability. Lane explained that 41 percent of the world’s poorest live in unstable or fragile states. “Ending extreme poverty by 2030, which President Obama said is in our sights, or zero hunger by 2030: you can’t get there from here if you don’t make the decision to focus on these conflict-ridden states,” he said. The lecture, titled “The U.S. and Global Food Security: Progress and Perils,” was held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Robertson Hall. The talk was organized by the Wilson School Office of Public Affairs and Communications. Lane is visiting the Wilson School as a Joseph S. Nye ’58 International Lecturer.
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He said that the team was able to achieve this through unconventional means.
“Antarctica is terrifically beautiful and an extremely harsh place to live.” Preston Kemeny ‘15, research specialist
In traditional research, the method has been to drill straight down from a glacier, a process that would require 10-15 years, tens and millions of dollars, a large international effort with many scientists and drilling into ice three kilometers thick, Higgins explained. He noted that by drilling close to the remote Alan Hill mountain range, they were able to collect deep ice
outcrops that had been surfaced by the obstruction of the mountain. As such, Higgins said that their expedition only required five team members, drilling a core 200 meters and a funding of $700,000, withholding the logistical cost. Yan noted that the National Science Foundation donated the funding for this expedition. The team collected 330 meters and 4.5 tons of ice in total, Higgins said. He added that the cores just arrived in Los Angeles and will be put in a refrigeration unit to be driven up to Colorado, where they will be placed in the national ice core laboratory until the team visits it in May. He said that they hope to have some form of research completed by the summer. “Antarctica is terrifically beautiful and an extremely harsh place to live. I’m very grateful that I had the opportunity to see a place so untouched by the humanity, especially in the interest of learning more about Earth’s climate,” Kemeny said.
CLARIFICATION Due to an editing error, the March 23 guest column on U. professor Jan Tomasz Gross was not labelled as “Letter to the Editor.”
CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the March 23 article on David French’s lecture omitted the Princeton Tory from the event’s sponsor list. The Daily Princetonian regrets this mistake.
CORRECTION Due to editing errors, two March 23 columns were misattributed; the column on U. professor Jan Tomasz Gross is by guest contributor Marek Blajezak, and the column on free food is by columnist Iris Samuels.
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